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Inter City Oil Foundation at a glance

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Inter City Oil Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$22kHuman Services$19kYouth Development$9kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$5kReligion$4kRecreation & Sports$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL CENTER$5,000
NORTHERN STAR SCOUTING$2,500
SUPERIOR HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
ST LOUIS RIVER QUEST$1,000
SUPERIOR PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
DULUTH EAST YOUTH FOOTBALL$1,000
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL - SUPERIOR WISCONSIN$500
NORTHWESTERN TIGERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF DULUTH: $1k → 15%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF DULUTH: $1k → 15%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF DULUTH: $500 → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $5k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 7 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$47k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+27%

Still filing today

43%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RI
    RICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k
  • NS
    NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • SH
    Second Harvest Northlandgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +80%
  • LS
    LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -13%
  • RI
    RICHARD I BONG VETERNS HISTORICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American
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2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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3
Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services
4
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…

Community Improvement
5
Southwest Minnesota Pride
Civil Rights
6
Lakeshore Retrouvaille-Wisconsin

Religious Programming

Human Services
7
Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.

—
8
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 70

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition.

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9
St Louis County Historical Society

To discover, preserve, and disseminate the historical knowledge of st. louis county and the state of minnesota through archival and museum services.

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10
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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11
Community Resource Connections Inc

Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Damiano of Duluth Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Louis River Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL CENTER: $15,000 · OtherRICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $7,500 · OtherNORTHERN STAR COUNCILSecond Harvest Northland: $3,500 · OtherSUPERIOR HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherRICHARD I BONG VETERNS HISTORICAL CENTER: $2,500 · OtherCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $2,500 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $2,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF SUPERIOR: $2,500 · OtherSUPERIOR SALVATION ARMY: $2,500 · OtherDULUTH EAST YOUTH FOOTBALL: $2,500 · Other+15 more: $14,000 · Other+15 moreDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF D…WOMEN'S CARE CENTER DULUTH INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CARE…LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSt Louis River Alliance: $1,000 · Environment
Other$68,000Human Services$9,000Arts & Culture$3,500Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER DULUTH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 71: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSt Louis River Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
  • Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER DULUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 71 ↗
  • Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds St Louis River Alliance ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Duluth-Superior Area …Campbell Family Chari…Smdc Medical CenterMinnesota Power Found…Northland FoundationHead of the Lakes Uni…Otto Bremer TrustBnsf Railway Foundati…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Campbell Family Charitable Trust · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Northland Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Inter City Oil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inter City Oil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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